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Employability skills cards

This set of cards has been created using the Open University’s Employability framework, which defines ten areas for the skills, capabilities or attributes students will develop through an OU qualification.You can use the cards on their own, or together with the sets of cards for Digital & Information Literacy (DIL) and Academic study skills, to consider skills development across the curriculum.Please see the separate document, ‘Using the OU skills cards’, for activity suggestions.

Employability skill Level 1

Evaluate and interpret qualitative and quantitative data associated

with problems and issues of a routine nature.

PROBLEM SOLVING


Apply knowledge and use a range of established techniques to identify and analyse problems and issues.

PROBLEM SOLVING


Systematically and critically evaluate arguments, assumptions, abstract concepts and data (that

may be incomplete) to make judgements.

PROBLEM SOLVING

Employability skill Level PG

Demonstrate self-direction and originality in identifying, tackling and solving relevant issues or problems

within the subject.

PROBLEM SOLVING


Communicate routine information, ideas and concepts within a

clearly defined context.

COMMUNICATION


Accurately and effectively communicate information,

arguments and ideas in a range of contexts.

COMMUNICATION


Accurately and effectively communicate information about

specialised topics to diverse audiences.

COMMUNICATION


Accurately and effectively communicate complex information, arguments, ideas and conclusions

as appropriate.

COMMUNICATION


Work with others, recognising and following accepted conventions

of learning interaction.

COLLABORATION


Work with others, playing an active role in learning interaction, paying

attention to the perspectives of others.

COLLABORATION


Work with others to achieve joint outcomes, playing an active role

in recording or facilitating effective learning interaction, influencing and / or leading as appropriate.

COLLABORATION


Work with others to achieve joint outcomes; play an active role in

facilitating effective learning interaction; identify conflict situations before they

arise and act appropriately, influencing and/or leading as appropriate

COLLABORATION


Apply a range of quantitative skills to describe and analyse information

as appropriate to the subject/ discipline/sector.

NUMERACY


Interpret, use, evaluate and produce quantitative data as appropriate to the subject/

discipline/sector.

NUMERACY


Select and apply more advanced quantitative skills relevant to a variety of information within the

subject/discipline/sector.

NUMERACY


Undertake critical evaluations of a wide range of data as appropriate

to the subject/discipline/sector.

NUMERACY


Use a standard set of digital practices to find, use, create

and share data, information and knowledge.

DIGITAL LITERACY


Confidently use a range of digital practices to find, use, create

and share data, information and knowledge.

DIGITAL LITERACY


Select, access and exploit a wide range of digital practices to find,

use, create and share data, information and knowledge.

DIGITAL LITERACY


Draw on and exploit a wide range of digital practices for scholarship and

professional purposes.

DIGITAL LITERACY


Demonstrate initiative, where the criteria for decisions and the scope

of the task are well defined.

INITIATIVE


Demonstrate initiative, where the criteria for decisions and the scope

of the task are well defined but requires some persistence.

INITIATIVE


Demonstrate initiative in different contexts.

INITIATIVE


Demonstrate initiative in professional and academic activities when decisions

are required in complex and unpredictable situations.

INITIATIVE


Determine priorities and sequence the steps involved in defined tasks, identifying the resources required.

SELF MANAGEMENT


Develop a plan and carry out tasks of some complexity, identifying

relevant constraints, dealing with uncertainties.

SELF MANAGEMENT


Identify relevant information and risks with the identification of

alternative strategies and resources as appropriate.

SELF MANAGEMENT


Identify relevant information and risks; adjust or renegotiate

priorities and plans as required to take into account high levels of

unpredictability.

SELF MANAGEMENT


Demonstrate awareness of practical and/or professional skills and key external trends and issues

as appropriate to subject/ discipline/sector.

SECTOR AWARENESS


Demonstrate an awareness of relevant ethical and sector/

commercial issues as appropriate to the subject/discipline/sector.

SECTOR AWARENESS


Demonstrate critical engagement with practical and/or professional skills and

ethical and sector/commercial issues as appropriate to the subject/

discipline/sector.

SECTOR AWARENESS


Demonstrate initiative and personal responsibility by engaging with and

advancing appropriate practical and/or professional skills and relevant ethical

issues to a high level.

SECTOR AWARENESS


Demonstrate insight into personal goals, preferences and aptitudes,

as well as an understanding of how one’s values can shape behaviours

and choices.

SELF AWARENESS


Identify and research options and associated skills and qualification

requirements; demonstrate understanding of one’s values to

inform next steps.

SELF AWARENESS


Articulate personal and/or professional values in relation to

subject/discipline/sector.

SELF AWARENESS


Develop strategies to address factors that may limit choices – skilled articulation of personal/

professional values which impact on subject/discipline/sector.

SELF AWARENESS


Demonstrate awareness of own culture and/or professional

perspective and how they are seen by others.

GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP


Reflect on one’s own and on other cultures and/or

professional perspectives.

GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP


Demonstrate critical understanding of different cultures and mediate

between different standpoints and perspectives.

GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP


Demonstrate critical understanding of different cultures; mediate between different standpoints

and perspectives, across different contexts.

GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP

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